Melosaurinae
| Melosaurinae Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian | |
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| Restoration of Melosaurus platyrhinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Archegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Melosaurinae |
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Melosaurinae is an extinct subfamily of temnospondyl amphibians, part of the family Archegosauridae. Most melosaurines are known from Russia, although an unnamed species has been found in Brazil.[1] Unlike the long-skulled archegosaurids of the family Platyoposaurinae, melosaurines have shorter, broadened snouts.
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007):[2]
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References
- ↑ Dias-Da-Silva, S. R. (2012). "Middle-Late Permian tetrapods from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Southern Brazil: A biostratigraphic reassessment". Lethaia 45: 109–120. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00263.x.
- ↑ Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.
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